Quotes on Telling The Truth

Good books tell the truth, even when they're about things that never have been and never will be. They're truthful in a different way

An artist has an obligation to tell the truth. [...] that the true horrors of human history derive not from orcs and Dark Lords, but from ourselves. We are the monsters. (And the heroes too). Each of us has within himself the capacity for great good, and great evil.

When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.

Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.

I told him the truth, that I loved him and didn't regret anything about our lives together. But do we ever 'tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help me God' as my father used to say, to those we love? Or even to ourselves? Don't even the best and most fortunate of lives hint at other possibilities, at a different kind of sweetness and, yes, bitterness too? Isn't this why we can't help feeling cheated, even when we know we haven't been?

Tell the truth once and for all and shut up forever.

The thing that hurts, that became anger, was when I realized that if you tell the truth, in a country that says you’re entitled to tell the truth, you get your face slapped and you get put out of work.

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.

I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.

If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

Let me tell so much truth. I want to tell the truth in my work. The truth will lead me to all.

He doubted her. You must never doubt the one you love. But they might not be telling the truth. Never mind that. You tell them the truth. What do you mean? You can't be another person's honesty, child, but you can be your own. So what should I say? When? When I love someone? You should say it.

Let's tell the truth to people. When people ask, 'How are you?' have the nerve sometimes to answer truthfully. You must know, however, that people will start avaoiding you because, they, too, have knees that pain them and heads that hurt and they don't want to know about yours. But think of it this way: If people avoid you, you will have more time to meditate and do fine research on a cure for whatever truly afflicts you.

Self-portraiture is something one should never get involved in, since it is wrong to lie even though one endeavours to tell the truth.

I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.

There is no trick to writing a believable love story, a heartbreaking scene or real-sounding dialogue. All you need is to tell the truth. It’s always heartbreaking.

The solemn pledge to abstain from telling the truth was called socialist realism.

You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth.

You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.